It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Providence seems to look after the chumps of this world; and, personally, I'm all for it.

So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.